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Microsoft just made GitHub Copilot free and open source software under the MIT License. As of today, you can fork it, modify it and even build your own billion dollar competitor without going to prison.

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Microsoft has open-sourced GitHub Copilot and Windows Subsystem for Linux, offering major opportunities for developers. This move allows programmers to modify and build competitors based on these tools, potentially enhancing software development efficiency and innovation. OpenAI's recent acquisition of Windsurf and moves involving AI code generation are closely linked, highlighting competitive dynamics in the AI coding space.

Microsoft just opened the flood gates…

<p>They realized they’ll dominate the coding assistant ecosystem anyways, might as well open for forks and take the optics W. It’s Kubernetes 2</p>


<p>Looks like they are accepting defeat (their <s>product team</s> subsidiary had not backed down yet)</p>
